I'm having a strange problem with my Fedora 11 install under VMWare Server. I can look up hosts in nslookup, host, and I can ping servers using their names, but when I use curl, firefox, or yum, it says it can't resolve the host name.

One thing I've sometimes found with VBox guests--I've never looked into the reason--is that sometimes, when using bridged networking, the network doesn't get it on the first try. Most of my guests are CentOS (at work, usually for testing) and I have restart the network a few times, with service network restart before it's able to reach the outside.

If it's a 32 bit guest, then the post that I mentioned isn't relevant--I only thought of it because the symptoms were similar.

Thanks guys. Does it matter what the domain name on the local network is? I think it's mshome.net. I had the VM on NAT before, but I tried switching it to bridged mode and that didn't help. Do you guys have the original bugzilla entry for the 64-bit bug? Maybe it's a similar issue?